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After the French defeat of summer 1940, Addi Ba, a young Senegalese rifleman escapes and hides in the Vosges.


His break-out role was starring in director Abd al Malik's French biographical drama film, "May Allah Bless France! Logged in as A film on Addi Bâ's life is in the works, with Belgian-Congolese actor Marc Zinga starring as the Resistance fighter, and Gabriel Le Bomin directing. Aided by some villagers, he gets false documents that allow him to live openly. Shadow and Act is a website dedicated to cinema, television and web content of Africa and its global Diaspora. With Louane Emera, François Deblock, Nina Melo, Rabah Nait Oufella. Nos patriotes (2017) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. With daily news, interviews, in-depth investigations into the audiovisual industry, and more, Shadow and Act promotes content created by and about people of African descent throughout the world. During the war, Bâ was captured by the Germans, taken prisoner, in November 1943, was tortured for information but wouldn't comply with their demands, and eventually shot dead a month later.Sixty years later, on July 13, 2003, Addi Bâ was posthumously awarded the French Resistance Medal. Après la défaite française de l’été 1940, Addi Ba, un jeune tirailleur sénégalais s’évade et se cache dans les Vosges. The subject of various literary works that followed (both fiction and non-fiction), Addi Bâ's name was adopted by streets in Tollaincourt (in northeastern France) and another in Langeais (in central France) in his honor.A film on Addi Bâ's life is in the works, with Belgian-Congolese actor Marc Zinga starring as the Resistance fighter, and Gabriel Le Bomin directing.French actressed Louane Emera and and Alexandra Lamy co-star in the film, playing the women who helped hide Addi Bâ from the Germans.Paris-based sales agent Other Angle has boarded the project, which is currently titled "Our Patriots," repping it at the European Film Market (EFM) which kicked off 2 days ago in Berlin.“There aren’t that many films looking at the role Africans played in fighting the Germans and none, as far as I know, about black resistance fighters during the war,” says Other Angle chief Olivier Albou to Star of "Our Patriot" Marc Zinga most recently starred in the 2016 French dramedy "The African Doctor" (co-starring Aissa Maiga), which we highlighted on this blog, and is currently streaming on Netlfix in the USA.